How to Use prologue in a Sentence

prologue

noun
  • But through Coogler and Cole’s purview, the past is prologue.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The past is prologue, but also the present — their present.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • So that was one of the larger tasks for us in that prologue.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Scary as that may sound, the past may have been merely the prologue.
    Vinit Patel, Fortune, 1 July 2022
  • The prologue was very much a tragedy and set up the world building for the series.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The past is a prologue, something to treasure on the long road of life.
    Billboard China, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Yet still for these CEOs, good and bad, the past is likely a prologue to the future.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • To keep Putin in check is to remember the past as prologue.
    Douglas London, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
  • All that aside, the only thing here is that after the prologue, the first episode may come out of left field.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • And if past is prologue, that's bad news for McConnell.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Its giveth-and-taketh-away vibe felt profound as a prologue.
    Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • And that’s not counting the prologue, which adds nine years to the final tally.
    Joey Morona, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Colin Cairnes The whole style of that opening prologue is based on that.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The prologue introduces the listener to the concept that will guide the show.
    Esther Choy, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
  • At the end of the prologue, Emmett Lyman, leading a pitch, crosses over the ridge and out of sight of his partner.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • If past is prologue, the answer to that question is likely not much.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The prologue mentions Trump had a classified war plan on the couch in his office, in plain view.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • And if past is prologue, a state takeover of Boston Public Schools isn’t going to help.
    WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • If past is prologue and the history of the pandemic is a guide, the next target is the United States.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The Last of Us got underway Sunday night with an eerie cold open prologue that’s set on a talk show in 1963.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2023
  • And if the past is prologue, any commitments these firms make today may not have a long shelf life.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Season 1, like a prologue of sorts, merely sets the stage for the two-year war that will decide the King of Westeros.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
  • At Rockaway, the dance will begin with a prologue as the performers start out on a rocky jetty and make their way down to the sand.
    Gia Kourlas Amir Hamja, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Some people thought the prologue was a pretty foul business.
    Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Ají Ceviche Bar was the colorfully hued haven that saw this zany prologue through to the start of Chapter 1.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2022
  • And so the author opens with a prologue describing a collapsing Reich—and the suicide of its Führer on the last day of April 1945.
    Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The framework here is that each episode features a rather lengthy prologue that lets the audience know not only what the crime was but who did it.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The prologue gives us Don Quixote in his old-fashioned study/bedroom dreaming of knight errantry.
    Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Catch the prologue-soundtrack track list and listen to Tems sing Bob Marley below.
    Vulture, 25 July 2022
  • Redcar is the beginning of a new journey for Chris, and this album is only the prologue.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2022

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